Sessions are being held in the auditorium and foyer of the conference center of the Stadtsparkasse am Altmarkt, Dr.-Külz-Ring 17 (Tuesday and Thursday), and in Room F1 and the cinema of the Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Junghansstr. 1-3 (Wednesday).


Monday, Sept. 6th
Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
16:00-22:00 Private Viewing for the Symposium Participants
16:00-20:00 Registration
18:00-22:00 Welcoming Reception

Tuesday, Sept. 7th
Stadtsparkasse am Altmarkt
Foyer: 8:30-9:00 Registration
Auditorium: 9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks
Martin Roth, General Director of the Dresden State Art Collections
Paolo Brenni, President of the Scientific Instrument Commission
Peter Plaßmeyer, Director of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
Michael Korey, Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon

SESSION 1 Hans-Moritz von Brühl:An Intermediary Between England and Saxony
9:30-9:50 Anita McConnell: Hans-Moritz von Brühl, a London Virtuoso and Patron
9:55-10:15 Magda Vargha: Mappa Generalis Regni Hungarica and von Brühl's Part in the Provision of Timekeepers and Instruments

Coffee Break 10:20-10:40

SESSION 2 Enlightened Instruments
10:45-11:05 Jim Bennett: Instrument Makers in Court: The Old Bailey Proceedings from the 18th Century
11:10-11:30 Alison Morrison-Low/A. D. C. Simpson:Fair Exchange:New Weights and Measures in Scotland
11:35-11:55 Sylvia Holló:The Astronomical Tower in Eger
12:00-12:20 Steven Turner: Interaction Between England and France Following the Defeat of Napoleon

Lunch 12:30-13:30

SESSION 3 The Transit of Venus
13:30-13:50 Sara Schechner: Politics, Instruments, and the Dimensions of the Solar System: John Winthrop's Observations of the Transit of Venus in 1761 and 1769
13:55-14:15 Stephen Johnston: An Experiment in Replication
14:20-14:40 Gudrun Wolfschmidt: Instruments for the German Transit ofVenus Expeditions in the 19th Century

Coffee Break 14:45-15:05

SESSION 4 Acoustics on the Threshold Between Scientific and Musical Instruments
15:10-15:30 Roland Wittje: Instruments of Science and Music from the18th to the 20th Century
15:35-15:55 Peter Donhauser: Two Research Projects at the Vienna Museum of Technology: A Link between Technology and Musical Instruments

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
17:00-19:00 Reception and Tour

Wednesday, Sept. 8th
Technische Sammlungen Room F1 Opening Remarks
8:45-9:00 Helmut Lindner, Director of the Technische Sammlungen

SESSION 5A Room F1 Optics
9:00-9:20 Alberto Meschiari: National Edition of the Works and Correspondence of G. B. Amici
9:25-9:45 Jozef Uyttenhove:The "Van Heurck" Collection of Historical Microscopes: A Unique Collection from a Very Special Scholar
9:50-10:10 Marian Fournier: The Delft Electron Microscope

Coffee Break 10:15-10:30

SESSION 6A Room F1 New Directions with Collections:Catalogues,
Acquisition Strategies, and Databases
10:30-10:50 Silke Ackermann: Maths and Memory -The Secrets of Calendar Medals
10:55-11:15 Amparo Sebastián: Four New Globes Made by J. Blaeu, G. Adams, and J. Senex in the Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología
11:20-11:40 Jane Insley: The Getting of GLORIA - Acquiring a Piece of Geophysical and Oceanographic History by the New Science Museum Method
11:45-12:05 Cornelia Weber: The International Committee for University Museums & Collections (UMAC) and Its Worldwide Database

Lunch 12:10-13:10

POSTER SESSION Room F1 13:10-14:20

SESSION 7A Room F1 Of Large Coils and Little Machines
14:20-14:40 Roberto Mantovani:Using Virtual Reality for Instruments:Mascart's Electrometer
14:45-15:05 Elizabeth Cavicchi: Looking at Medical Induction Coils: Diversity in Instrumental Experience and Understandings
15:10-15:30 Ad Maas:Einstein's "Little Machine"

Coffee Break 15:35-15:55

SESSION 8A Room F1 A Survey of Surveying and Astronomical Instruments
15:55-16:15 Giorgio Strano: Pre-Telescopic Astronomy Beyond the Eye-Resolution Limit: History, Characteristics and Potentialities of Tycho Brahe's Sights
16:20-16:40 Wolfram Dolz: The Waywisers of Elector August of Saxony and Their New Use in the Survey of Saxon Postal Roads
16:45-17:05 Suzanne Débarbat: Angle Measurement with the Borda Repeating Circle
17:10-17:30 Willem Mörzer Bruyns: Octants from the Frisian Island of Föhr 1760-1780

Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
18:30 Group Photo.We will ride together to the Salon on the tram.

Dresden Palace
19:00-20:00 Private Viewing of the Neues Grünes Gewölbe (New Green Vault)

PARALLEL SESSIONS AFTER THE OPENING REMARKS

SESSION 5B Cinema Sleeping Beauties Roused: Object-Oriented Research at the Deutsches Museum
9:00-9:20 Peter Heering:Between Education, Entertainment and Research:18th-Century Projections with Solar Microscopes
9:25-9:45 Ulf Hashagen:The Gauss Calculating Machine:Masterpiece or Failed Innovation?
9:50-10:10 Christian Sichau:An Experimental Record of Precision or'Big Science' in the 1920s: Georg Joos' Measurement of the Ether Drift

Coffee Break 10:15-10:30

SESSION 6B Cinema Telescopes
10:30-10:50 Yaakov Zik:Kepler and the Telescope
10:55-11:15 Rolf Willach:The Use of Marbled Paper on Scientific Instruments in the 17th Century
11:20-11:40 Peter Abrahams:The Telescope in Japan 1600-1900
11:45-12:05 Randy Liebermann:George W. Ritchey -A Visionary's Quest for Perfect Seeing

Lunch 12:10-13:10

13:10-14:20 Tour of the Technische Sammlungen

SESSION 7B Cinema Instruments of Chemistry
14:20-14:40 Trienke Van der Spek:Sparks and Airs: Pneumatic Chemistry in theLast Quarter of the 18th Century
14:45-15:05 Sara Carvalho:The History of the Separation Funnel Seen Through Experimental Works in Chemistry in the 19th and 20th Centuries
15:10-15:30 Rob Lukens:Chemistry's Revolutionary Tools:Collecting and Interpreting 20th-Century Chemical Instrumentation

Coffee Break 15:35-15:55

SESSION 8B Cinema Instruments in Unexpected Places
15:55-16:15 Zuyuan Wang:Revealing the Mystery of the "Waterspouting" Fish Basin: A Demonstration from Ancient Chinese Bronze Ware
16:20-16:40 Robert Hicks:Celestial Globes in Alchemical Paintings
16:45-17:05 Klaus Staubermann:Appropriating the Past -The Reworking of Lohse's Astro-Camera
17:10-17:30 Jahnavi Phalkey:Meghnad Saha and the Calcutta Cyclotron

Thursday, Sept. 9th
Stadtsparkasse am Altmarkt
SESSION 9 Auditorium Central European Instruments of the16th - 18th Centuries
9:00-9:20 Peter Plaßmeyer:Christoph Schißler: The Elector's Dealer
9:25-9:45 Karsten Gaulke:"The First European Observatory of the 16th Century Founded by Landgrave Wilhlem IV of Hessen-Kassel": A Serious Historiographic Category or a Misleading Marketing Device?
9:50-10:10 Sven Hauschke:The Scientific Instruments of the Nuremberg Goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585)
10:15-10:35 Klaus Schillinger:Some Lesser-Known Dresden Instrument Makers of the 17th Century

Coffee Break 10:40-10:55

11:00-11:20 Anthony Turner:'Not to Hurt of Trade': The Guilds and Innovation in Horology and Precision Instrument-Making
11:25-11:45 Uta Lindgren:Astronomical Precursors of 16th-CenturyGeodetic Instruments
11:50-12:10 Gloria Clifton:The Central European Instruments in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory Greenwich: A Study in the History of Collecting
12:15-12:35 Ewa Wyka:Scientific Instruments and the Legacy of Johannes Broscius (1585-1652), Professor of theCracow Academy

Lunch 12:40-13:40

SESSION 10A Aditorium Scientific Instruments in Kunstkammer andCourt Collections
13:45-14:05 Filippo Camerota:The Medici Collection ofMathematical Instruments
14:10-14:30 Sven Dupré/Michael Korey:Tracking Optical Objects in theDresden Kunstkammer 1560-1640
14:35-14:55 Koenraad Van Cleempoel:The Collection of Scientific Instrumentsat the Escorial of Philip II
15:00-15:20 Tatiana Moisseva:Scientifica in the Petersburg Kunstkamera: Instruments for the Introduction of New Knowledge into Russia
15:25-15:45 Horst Bredekamp:Commentary

Coffee Break 15.50-16.00

SESSION 12A Auditorium Between Collecting and Trade
16:05-16:25 Mara Miniati:The Collecting Taste. Italian Case Studies from the 19th and 20th Centuries
16:30-16:50 Paolo Brenni:Not Just Cuckoo Clocks and Chocolate. The Swiss Precision Industry between 1780 and 1930
17:00-18:00 Plenum of the Scientific Instrument Commission

Elbe River Quay
18:30-23:00 Conference dinner aboard the Stadt Wehlen

PARALLEL SESSIONS AFTER LUNCH

SESSION 10B Foyer Seismographs
13:45-14:05 Julien Fréchet:The History of Seismography in France
14:10-14:30 Josep Batlló:Study and Restoration of the Old Seismographsof the Fabra Observatory in Barcelona

SESSION 11 Foyer Time, Space, and the Weather
14:35-14:55 Vladimir Schurov:A. S. Popov's Storm Indicator:Invention, Curiosity, or Lost Priority in the Development of Radio
15:00-15:20 James Caplan:The 'Time Service' of the Marseille Observatory
15:25-15:45 Ernst-Reinhold Mewes:Mathematical Analysis of Astrolabic Dialsfrom Medieval Monumental Clocks

Coffee Break 15.50-16.00

SESSION 12B Foyer The Sphaera Copernicana ofSchleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
16:05-16:25 Søren Andersen:Examination and Restoration of the Sphaera Copernicana
16:30-16:50 Anne-Marie Christensen:Reconstruction of the Missing Constellations

Friday, Sept. 10th
Departure from the hotels.
Excursion I 8:00-20:00 Freiberg/Waldenburg (Dolz)
Excursion II 9.00-18:00 Bautzen/Görlitz (Plaßmeyer)
Excursion III 8:00-20:00 Jena/Halle (Korey)

Saturday, Sept. 11th
We plan to arrange tours of several Dresden museums in the morning.